Zhdanovism in China
During the Cultural Revolution in China, Zhdanovism was carried even further than in its Russian archetype. Yang Hansheng, former vice-chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, was denounced for extolling such "bourgeois" writers as William Shakespeare, Molière and Henrik Ibsen. Zhou Yang, who translated Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Leo Tolstoy into Chinese, was accused in Red Flag of the crime of praising the "foreigners" (used in the pejorative sense) Vissarion Belinsky, Chernyshevsky and Nikolay Dobrolyubov. Zhou "stubbornly announced" that "in aesthetics he was a faithful follower of Chernyshevsky". The accusations were all the more ironic as, in the Soviet Union, Belinsky, Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov were considered key radical figures who paved the way for the 1917 Revolution.
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